[mou] Article re mammal cycles

[Richard Carlson]

The Bioscience article referred to by Jim Williams is
unreadable except by subscribers or possibly computer
geniuses. It would be great if someone could post it
where it is readable.

Dick Carlson
Native Minnesotan, temporarily absent since 1960


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> Message: 1
> Cc: MnBird <Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>, MOU-net
> <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
> From: Jim Williams <two-jays@att.net>
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:51:30 -0600
> To: WisBirdNet <wisbirdn@lawrence.edu>
> Subject: [mou] Boreal Owl caching food
> 
> For an interesting photograph of a Boreal Owl in a
> nest box surrounded 
> by captured prey items, go to 
> http://www.aibs.org/bioscience/current_issue.html
> The address takes you to the current issue of
> BioScience magazine.
> 
> The bird apparently was caching food.
> 
> There is an accompanying article entitled "The
> Puzzles of Population 
> Cycles and Outbreaks of Small Mammals Solved?" that
> can be downloaded 
> as a pdf file. It might be interesting reading in
> this, the winter of 
> owls brought to us by prey shortages.
> 
> Thanks to friend Mike Mulligan of Calgary for
> providing the information.
> 
> Jim Williams
> Wayzata, Minnesota
> 
> 

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Richard Carlson
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